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Coming soon: Pay per Tweet, then Pay per Facebook status update

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IZEA, of PayPerPost fame, is preparing the launch of PayPerTweet according to AdWeek. Twitter users will get paid based on a flat fee pro tweet or depending on the amount of clicks they get. Users will be required to disclose sponsored tweets with the hashtag #spon.

When the platforms launches, launch is expected next week, we can prepare for a new shitstorm in a glass about advertising and disclosure and daring to make a quick buck from an online profile.

That said, if the Twitter team agrees with this advertising concept, possibilities for IZEA are big and one can only wonder why Twitter didn’t come up with this. IZEA could go big here and catch the eyeballs of bigger brands all while also linking up with big media companies, who have automated their twitter feed. Since the celebrity invasion of Twitter there are less media feeds in the Twitter Top 100, but many news corporations have more than 100.000 followers, both main stream media or new media. The reason why these feeds are the most appropriate ones to advertise on are simple: [Read more…]

Tweeting too Hard, when Twitter and Facebook fail for self-validation

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One of the great things about Twitter, and since recently Facebook, is the huge amount of self-validation you get from both platforms. As if that alone wasn’t enough yet, you can now get even more validation at Tweeting too Hard.

What is Tweeting too Hard?

There’s always that person at a party that is trying way too hard. Well, Twitter is a party and those people are here, too. Actually, it could be you.

Tweeting Too Hard is the place to submit, vote on, and chuckle self-righteously at tweets that are just too much. Self-importance, pretense, braggadocio—it’s all here and it’s laid bare for the scoffing.

We all know someone who is due for a good-natured tweet-roast. So get to it. Click the big green submit button and make the world a better place.

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Facebook lifts ban on breasts. Not really.

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Facebook has a long standing policy on topless (female) photos and has no known plans to revise this policy. For the first time the social media network came back on a decision earlier made and reinstated a picture.

After Sharon Adams’ picture of her post-masectomy chest was moderated and removed as “sexual and abusive”, 900 people joined a protest group in support of Sharon Adams and breast cancer awareness. Facebook duly reinstated the picture and even offered Sharon Adams an apology:

Our user operations team reviews thousands of reported photos a day and may occasionally remove something-that doesn’t actually violate our policies. This is what happened here. We apologise.

Should Facebook generally allow its users to post the pictures they want, but request self-moderation first like Flickr does or should Facebook continue it’s general ban on breasts?

More at The Daily Mail.

GOOG-411 adds nearby intersections

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Users of GOOG-411 can now save even more time when trying to find a location as Google a new feature implemented. When asking for a details to a location, the service will also tell you which the nearest intersections are. In the announcement post the example of the Google office in NYC was provided.

You can try it now: call 1-800-466-4411, look up ‘Google in New York’, ask us for more ‘details’, and we’ll tell you that our Chelsea office is ‘near the intersection with West 16th Street’. Unless you’re a seasoned New Yorker, this might very well save you from walking up or down a few blocks.

Intersections are available for most towns and cities in the US and Canada.

Twitpocalypse, another useless Twitter site begging for 5 minutes of fame.

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You might have noticed it already, Twitter is a BIG thing nowadays and has been exploding in popularity for months now. One of the great things about Twitter is it’s API and the many applications built around Twitter. Often it doesn’t matter if your application is very useful or rather useless, you are almost always guaranteed your 5 minutes of fame.

The Twitpocalypse site, warning users (and application developers) for the Twitter Apocalypse, belongs to the rather useless sites built around the Tweetexpress.

What is Twitpocalypse?

The Twitpocalypse is similar to the Y2K bug. Very soon the unique identifier associated to each tweet will exceed 2,147,483,6471
For some of your favorite third-party Twitter services not designed to handle such a case, the sequence will suddenly turn into negative numbers. At this point, they are very likely to malfunction or crash.

According to the estimate at the time of writing, the Twitpocalypse is expected on 10 Jun 2009 at 12:27:04 PM GMT. ETA is updated every 5 minutes. [Read more…]